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Ecosystem capital accounts for Europe

Ecosystem capital accounts for Europe. Approach and status of EEA activities, 13 June 2012. Part 1: Introduction and overview. Environmental context Characteristics of ecosystem capital accounts The role of national pilot exercises. Ecosystems deliver multiple services to society.

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Ecosystem capital accounts for Europe

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  1. Ecosystem capital accounts for Europe Approach and status of EEA activities, 13 June 2012

  2. Part 1: Introduction and overview Environmental context Characteristics of ecosystem capital accounts The role of national pilot exercises

  3. Ecosystems deliver multiple services to society Source: Gilbert Long, 1972

  4. Ecosystem functions: soil biodiversity Source: European Atlas of Soil Biodiversity JRC, 2010.

  5. Ecosystem Assessments in EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 Action 5 under target 2 of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020: ”Member States, with theassistanceof the Commission, will map and assess the state of ecosystems and their services in their national territory by 2014,assess the economic valueof such services, and promote the integration of these values into accounting and reporting systems at EU and national level by 2020.”

  6. UN manual for environmental-economic accounting: SEEA2003Enlargement of the System of National Accounts RM HASSAN - UN The System of Environmental and Economic Accounting (UN 2003) - RANESA Workshop June 12-16, 2005 Maputo Revision  SEEA2012/13 Impacts on ecosystem capacity of delivering services/benefits Volume 1 The SNA satellite accounts for the environment expenditure, taxes, hybrid accounts, physical flows, sub-soil, energy, water, land, economic assets depletion Volume 2 Ecosystem capital accounts Ecosystem stocks and quality, ecosystem services, benefits and maintenance costs… Negative feedbacks of ecosystem degradation on production and wellbeing

  7. Focus is on flows and stocks accessible without degrading the ecosystem Biomass/ carbon Freshwater Landscape(s) Riverscape, Seascape Biodiversity Accounting infrastructure: Land cover accounts (LEAC) Sea, Atmosphere Monitoring networks Socio-economic statistics, land use

  8. Land cover, landscape units, 1km2 grids and calculation of ecosystem capability Accessible Carbon “+” 4 2 6 1 5 4 Accessible Water 6 4 10 8 4 3 “+” Landscape integrity, biodiversity

  9. Land cover, landscape units, 1km2 grids and calculation of ecosystem capability Accessible Carbon “+” 12 12 4 2 6 10 1 10 4 5 Accessible Water 20 20 6 15 4 15 10 8 4 3 “+” Landscape integrity, biodiversity “=” Total ecosystem capital capability (or potential)

  10. Development Capability2 Capability1 9 -3 12 10 11 +1   12 20 -8 15 12 -3 Time 1 Time 2 Degradation Capability2 – Capability1 = Change in capital Adapted from Aoyama Yukiko, Oguro Michio, and Yano Tohru Tohoku University, Sendai,Japan, November 2011

  11. Diagramme on overall structure of water accounts

  12. Characteristics of ecosystem capital accounts The development of ecosystem capital accounts aims to: • Describe the national, European and/or global stock of ecosystem capital • Identify flows of ecosystem services that can be used sustainably • Track trends in the stocks and flows associated with the natural capital in our ecosystems If successful this leads to information on: • The quantity and quality of ecosystem stocks and flows • Human impacts on the resilience of ecosystems • An understanding of ‘ecological debt’ due to over-use of ecosystems • A framework for managing our renewable natural capital stock, i.e. ecosystems and their services

  13. The role of national pilot exercises Why in Slovakia ? What purpose for national ecosystem capital accounts ? How… ?

  14. Implementing Action 5 of EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 By 2014: • Biophysical baseline mapping and assessment of the state of major ecosystems • Biophysical baseline mapping and assessment of defined ecosystem services 2015-2020: III. Alignment of ecosystem service assessments with scenarios of future changes IV. Valuation of ecosystem services for baseline and contrasting scenarios and integration into environmental and economic accounting.

  15. The role of national pilot exercises • Testing the EEA concept and approach • Validating European fast-track results • Developing further the analytical approach • Important for delivering on EU targets • Help build national information systems • Can feed into national policy debates • Interaction between EEA & national analysts

  16. Thank you for your attention! Jan-Erik.Petersen@eea.europa.eu

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